Eeginald byard buchanan clayton



(No Model.)

R. B. B. CLAYTON.

D a A U G K R 0 F Pa tented June 4, 1889.

q v W UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

REGINALD BYARD BUCHANAN CLAYTON, OF LONDON, ENGLAND.

FORK-GUARD;

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 404,77 7, dated June 4, 1889.

Application filed April 9, 1889- Serial No. 306,568. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, REGINALD BYARD BUCHANAN CLAYTON, Australian-agent, a subject of the Queen of Great Britain, residing at 88 Bishopsgate, in the city of London, England, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Fork-Guards, of which the following is a specification.

According to my invention I construct a fork-guard which can be readily attached to and detached from an ordinary fork.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of a fork having my improved guard attached to it. Fig. 2 is an under side view of the same. Fig. 3 is a perspective View of the guard separately and Fig. 4 is a section on the line X X, Figs. 1 and 2, showing the shape of the spring-jaws. In this view the parts out of the plane of section are omitted.

A is a plate which lies along the top of the fork. One end of it carries the part B of the guard, which projects upward. The other end is turned downward and backward and is provided with extensions C C.

D D are spring-jaws carried by the plate A.

In putting on the guard the front end is placed sidewise between the prongs, and is then turned round so that the extensions 0 0 come below the prongs, as shown in Fig. 2. The plate is then forced downward, the jaws D D giving way until it comes in contact with the stem of the fork, as shown in Fig. 1. WVhen in this position,the extensions 0 C and the spring-jaws D D hold it in place.

What I claim is- A fork-guard having a plate adapted to lie along the top of the stem of the fork and whose end is bent downward and backward, passing between the prongs and holding beneath them, and which is provided with spring-jaws to clasp the stem of the fork, substantially as described.

London, March 29, 1889.

REGINALD BYARD BUCHANAN CLAYTON.

IVitnesses:

ALFRED DONNISON,

HERBERT FURMAGE CHIGNALL. 

